If we now know who made the cake of royal wedding, but we are still guess the rest of the menu of wedding Kate and will. Royal wedding festivities, as imagine you, have always been quite business - reached the peak of their extravagance and extensions of the rooms to eat a lot of the beginning of the middle age. Animals would have been raised specially for the event - with a foreman day one eye on stocks so that food never been exhausted. In addition to hundreds of guests, workers would have access to food instead of wages, a tradition which held until the middle of the 17th century.
Festivals of marriage are famous fairs of wealth and power. Highly ornamented food such as the Golden peacocks and heads of pigs were common on the medieval tables, but perhaps the most imposing feature of any modern marriage is cake. Now regarded as a representation of the bride - virginal and white - the cake in this form is a recent invention. It is composed of several traditions dating back when a flange or pie cake was made - once again, putting women at the centre of the opportunity. Number curiously, in the South of the United States, a darker, stronger tasting fact grooms cake often to these authorities starting the appetites of men.
The tradition of the giant royal cake was booming when Victoria married Prince Albert in 1840, one of their cakes several weighed over 300 pounds, whereas that of the Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes Lyon in 1923 was almost nine feet high. Although the opulence of these cakes is impressive, our own Queen used his cake to join the commonwealth - using ingredients sent everywhere in the world. She sent the parts across the United Kingdom - linking her subjects to him in a rather special way. Several royal cakes and parts are still in various Royal collections, including a piece of monster of 300 lb of Victoria!
Royal wedding celebrations tend to give a wink of eye to history, often naming dishes in family. It will be interesting to see if the young couple break this tradition in their attempts at modernization. While the current Queen Mother began its celebration of marriage consummated in the Windsor, the Queen herself finished his meal with a laminate of cream bomb 'Princess Elizabeth'.
What I think is some on the menus of marriage William and Kate, and that they will present food grown or produced by the various States of Royal - their own version of seasonal and "local". Even if the time is for most of the Royal to be productive peak gardens, British lamb is at its best in spring, then perhaps they will be plum for this as a main dish? Charles and Diana did when, in 1981, they chose a muslin of lamb as a stuffing for chicken breasts. As they also had a rich starter of the fish with sauce of lobster dumplings, they were no doubt pleased of strawberries and cream for dessert.
You can celebrate the marriage of Charles and Diana, or in fact of the marriage of the Queen? If so, you remember what you've eaten?
Gerard Baker is a food historian and a hairy Bikers programmes contributor.
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